IM Stanislav Bogdanovich to Compete for World Rapid and Blitz Titles Along with Elite GMs

The list of participants for the World Rapid and Blitz Championships is up on the official website of the competitions. Berlin will host a number of elite GMs including reigning champion (in all three titles - classical, rapid and blitz) Magnus Carlsen. In Germany he will be defending two of those titles. The championships will be held from October 10-14.

You can spot IM Stanislav Bogdanovich's name among the elite grandmasters. His classical rating is 2590, whilst in this line up we are probably presented with his average blitz rating from January to August.

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The world championships at rapid and blitz chess will be held from 9-15 October in Berlin. Both tournaments will be Swiss system events, the Rapid 15 rounds in three days, the blitz 21 rounds over two days.

The world rapid and blitz champions will take place from June 15-21 in Dubai. Both competitions will be heldin Swiss format: rapid (time control 15+10) - 15 rounds in two days, blitz (3+2) - 21 rounds in three days. The list of participants is available on the official website, for instance Evgeny Najer is only 50th according to his rating. First is Magnus Carlsen, he is followed by Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk and Vishy Anand.

The FIDE website has published Regulations for the World Rapid and Blitz Championships today. The main difference presented this year suggests "The events will be Swiss pairings tournaments and will be held over two days for Blitz and three days for Rapid. The Blitz will have fifteen rounds with each player playing with white and black against his paired opponent.

At the current FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Chengdu, Berlin has been accepted to host the world rapid and blitz championships. The tournament will run from 9 to 15 October, according to the FIDE website.

It is already clear that the dates clash with several other events. In particular, there is an overlap with Millionaire Chess, for which Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So have both signed up, and also with Chess Train (the traditional chess event on board a train) and the Bundesliga.

The Ukrainian international master Stanislav Bogdanovich is in eighth place in the world blitz rating list published today. Bogdanovich (2815) is in good company - just above him is Levon Aronian (2816), and immediately below - Teimour Radjabov (2808), with just seven people separating him from top man Magnus Carlsen (2933).

During yesterday's live radio transmission at Chess-News, which lasted over an hour, the President of the Association of Chess Professionals Emil Sutovsky talked about several important decisions made during the FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Elista. Among other things, the grandmaster said that decisions were made about the Rapid and Blitz World Championships to be held later this year,

The World Rapid and Blitz Championships will be held in Astana from 2 until 10 July. The qualifying rapid tournament will be held between 2 and 3 July. Anyone with the rating of 2300 or over can play in this 9-round Swiss tournament (the regulations in Russian).